Re: ppp and gnome

[Tom Gilbert <gilbertt tomgilbert freeserve co uk>]

On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Ellis Gibson wrote:

>I got my ppp conection to work with the gnome modem lights applet, that
>is I can connect and disconnect when logged on as root. But it won't
>work when logged on as a user, I set ppp to work with all users and
>still nothing.
>As root:   ifup ppp0 = connect
>                  ifdown ppp0 = disconnect
>
>Please help.

Check the permissions of /dev/modem (if you have one, it should be a link
to your modem tty)

For me...

$ ll /dev/modem
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     uucp           10 May 11 20:18 /dev/modem ->
/dev/ttyS0 

See what happens then...

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